When Petrie saw it in 1837 there was
a circle of 40 stones around the mound; today there is only one remaining.
Wood-Martin's excavation report is given below. He found that the floor
of the chamber was flagged. About 6 kg of cremated bone was found here.

Carrowmore 4. From an original sketch by Petrie. (Borlase, 1897).

Borlase: -

No. 4 (dolmen-circle, a short distance to the northeast of the last). "This
circle is in part destroyed, but the cromleac is untouched. The diameter
of the circle is 40 feet, and the number of stones appears to have been
forty, but twenty-one only remain. The cromleac of this circle is a good
example of the size most common to such monuments in Carrowmore. It is
formed of five supporting-stones, and one table-stone. It measures altogether
not more than 5 feet in height, and the table-stone is 14 feet in circumference."
- Petrie.
View to Queen Maeve's Cairn from Circle 7 at Carrowmore.

The circle had, when Col. Wood-Martin visited it, been buried by the tenant,
except one boulder.

On excavation, "near the surface were the unburnt
remains of a wolf or dog, and of a large rodent. When the flagged floor
was reached....... there were abundant traces of calcined remains, some
imperfect bone pins and piercers; also a worked bone, seemingly the handle
of some implement.

A beautiful watercolour of the dolmen at Site 4 in Carrowmore by William Wakeman from 1879.

The animal bones, of dog or wolf, and rodent, were
unburnt and unpetrified, and, from their colour, had evidently lain in
clay, the humus still adhering to them. There was about 14 lbs. weight
of small fragments of bone, lime-soaked, and therefore much increased
in weight and density. Many of them were charred and blackened by fire."
- Wood Martin.

Carrowmore
4, illustration by George Elcock.

With these remains was found a "large, roundish stone of white quartz,
smooth, and weighing 14.5 ozs. It is 3 inches long, the same broad, and
1.75 inchs thick; also a smooth, black, cuneiform stone, with a thin coating
of carbon, weighing 13.5 ozs., and measuring 2 11/16 inches long, 1 11/16
inch broad, and 5/8 of an inch thick; also a piece of rough white quartz
of rudely triangular form, with some of its edges sharp; also some pieces
of red sandstone in process of disintegration. There were also, in the
general mass of small fragments, a few teeth of a young pig, bird bones,
part of the valve of a shell, and half of the lower jaw of a rabbit."
- Wood Martin.